Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn GabirolPrinceton University Press, 30.06.2016 - 344 Seiten Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor Shmuel HaNagid, the first important poet of the period, Ibn Gabirol was a reclusive, mystically inclined figure whose modern-sounding medieval poems range from sublime descriptions of the heavenly spheres to poisonous jabs at court life and its pretenders. His verse, which demonstrates complete mastery of the classicizing avant-garde poetics of the day, grafted an Arabic aesthetic onto a biblical vocabulary and Jewish setting, taking Hebrew poetry to a level of metaphysical sophistication and devotional power it has not achieved since. |
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... Book of Grammar My Condition Worsened All My Desire The Apple : I See the Sun They Asked Me As Though They Were Mystified On Leaving Saragossa The Moon Was Cut My Heart Thinks As the Sun Comes Up The Palace Garden Winter with Its Ink 49 ...
... Book of Discussion and Remembrance , for his philosophical temperament , and for his " angry spirit which held sway ... books — now lost - on philosophical , linguistic , scientific , and religious topics . ( A Choice of Pearls , a ...
... books , Ibn Gabirol would charge his ornament with complex value , bringing sublime vision to a space that artifice defined . Lacing his poems with allusions to the work of these forbears , he would devote his skill to the pursuit of ...
... Book of Discus- sion and Remembrance : Ibn Gabirol's " way in the art of poetry was subtle , " says Ibn Ezra ... book , liturgical poet , com- piler of the first rhyming dictionary in Hebrew and the first Hebrew- Arabic lexicon, and ...
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FROM THE DIWAN OF SOLOMON IBN GABIROL | 39 |
PERSONAL POEMS AND POEMS OF COURT | 43 |
POEMS OF DEVOTION | 109 |
KINGDOMS CROWN | 137 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 317 |